What do you need to do to plan for 2017? Janet Driscoll Miller, Marketing Mojo president & CEO, covers the things you need to know about SEO before you create your marketing plan.
Presentation for Central Virginia American Marketing Association (CVAMA)
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SEO AND WHAT
YOU NEED TO
KNOW: PLANNING
FOR 2017
Janet Driscoll Miller
Marketing Mojo
Central Virginia AMA
September 27, 2016
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PANDA UPDATE
• Addresses duplicate content
and thin content
• Very important to remove
duplicate content from a site
• Now “regularly” runs
• According to Gary Illyes at
Google, every few weeks
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PENGUIN UPDATES
• Penguin focused on linkspam
• “Any links intended to
manipulate PageRank or a site's
ranking in Google search results may
be considered part of a link scheme
and a violation of
Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.
This includes any behavior that
manipulates links to your site.”
• LAST UPDATED 9/23/2016!
› Previous update was 10/17/14
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WHY IS REAL-TIME PENGUIN
IMPORTANT?
• Last update before 9/23 had been nearly two
years before!
› In the meantime, sites had to wait for the update
to remove the penalty
• Now sites can recover almost immediately if
they take corrective action
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WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
• If you have multiple offices/locations, be sure
to enter each address for that location
› Don’t just default to using one main address or a
corporate address/phone
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GOOGLE ANALYTICS TAGGING
• Passes information from your
destination URLs into
Google Analytics
• Tagging is automatic in Google
AdWords by default
• https://support.google.com/
analytics/answer/1033867?hl=
en
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FIX SELF-REFERRALS!
• Google Universal Analytics can create self-referral
issues
• Self-referral:
› Your site’s domain is listed as a referral site to itself
• When you switch from Classic to Universal, you
have to update the “referral exclusion list”
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HOW SELF-REFERRALS HAPPEN IN
UNIVERSAL
• Session length is 30 minutes by default
Referral
Source/Medium:
Google/organic
Referral
Source/Medium:
YourDomain.com/
referral
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN IT’S FIXED?
• Self-referral traffic
becomes correctly
attributed to the
original
source/medium
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HOW DO YOU FIX IT?
• Set referral exclusions under PROPERTY
setting in Google Analytics
• Select Tracking Info/Referral Exclusion List
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CAPITALIZE ON YOUR HARD WORK IN
SEO!
• Retargeting
› Put code on your site today!
› You can’t build these audiences retroactively
• Platforms
› Google AdWords
› Google Analytics
› Bing Ads
• Many cookies last at least 180 days
› Facebook
› Twitter
› Pinterest
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CAPITALIZE ON YOUR HARD WORK IN
SEO!
• Email marketing
› Try to capture emails at minimum
› Use for email campaigns
• Customer Match advertising
› Platforms
» Google AdWords
» Facebook
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CONTACT INFO
JANET DRISCOLL MILLER
President and CEO
Marketing Mojo
434.975.6656 x101
jmiller@marketing-mojo.com
@janetdmiller
Notas del editor
Before and after example of search results with ads above fold
MOBILE
Confirm Gary’s quote
Headline about sitespeed as ranking factor
Site speed – use graph from roland and sem rush graph for jda
Show google page speed insights
Insert recent quote from Gary or John Mueller here